The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-08-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1ue WOOL Cup OF Ctan tillS year is est
= mated at 100000 pounds.
y Destructive forest fires have been ragiu
: in Wisconsin and Michigan the past weel
n Wallsville, New York, reports the fir
;. frost of the season, on Sunday morning las
Latest returns from Texas indicate til
defeat of the prohibition amendment b
majority of over 125,O00.
. Mooney, the alleged dynamiter, VIII
set fire to the British steamship Queen, a
New York last week, has been declares
insane.
= Maxwell, the murderer of Preller, ha
, been granted stay of proceedings unit
the United States supreme court meet
in October.
Deputy Sheriff William Carson, son O.
: the noted scout, was murdered near AL
mosa, CAL, Thursday, by desperate he
was attempting to arrest.
A beer vat, containing seventy five
gallons of boiling water in Roper's brew
cry at Green Bay, Wisconsin, exploded
and six men were scalded to death.
A cyclone struck building in the
suburbs of Cincinnati, upon which car
penters were at work, literally breaking
it to pieces and mortally wounding two
of the men.
At celebration at Fort Worth, Texas,
over the defeat of the prohibition amend
ment, three boys were fatally and several
others seriously burned by the explosion
OF keg of powder.
Chas. Murray, manager of the Ontario
investment company at London, Canada,
is defaulter to the tune of 100000,
and has gone to Omaha. This evens up
the loss of McGarigle.
A duel with short swords took place at
New Orleans, on the 5th, between Emile
Revare, editor of Ell Opinion, and Lar
rien, jr., president of the Club Democratic
Franchise, in which Larrien was ser;-
ously wounded in the breast.
A cave-in occurred at the eastern end
of the Cascade tunnel on the 5th, killing
four men and injuring several others. It
is claimed that the contractors were care
less and did not timber the tunnel fast
enough to keep up with the boring,
kilograms received at Chicago on the
9th from central points throughout the
entire $4,000 square miles of the drouth
stricken northwestern country shows fear
full sun scorching of all vegetation. Not
a drop of ram has fallen except S100 of
an inch at Des Moines. Iowa.
Whitely's enormous drapery and gen.
cral store warehouse at Padlngton, Eng
land, was destroyed by fire on the 9th
Loss $1,250,000. Three employees and
two firemen were killed by the collapse
of portion Of the structure, and about IA
score or others seriously injured.
Carbondale, Illinois, has passed Sun
day ordinance that prohibits the sale of
oil articles of .uvrof,aud;ee On Sunday.
1t closes the barber shops, stops milk
wagons, suppresses newsboys, and permits
the sale of medicines at drug stores only
upon the prescription of a physician.
A Berlin dispatch states that Alfred
Krupp bequeathed S250,000 for the ben
eft of his employees. His son Frederick
has added $125.OO0 to the amount for
the people of Essen. In recognition of
these bequests the town council of Essen
has voted $15, 900 for the statue of Krupp.
An excursion party of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, in session at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, were in steamer
which capsized while on Lake Monowa
last Thursday. Five of the party were
drowned, and two or three others are
missing and it is supposed shared simi-
lar fate.
Millbrook, in Graham county, Kansas,
was almost entirely destroyed by cy-
clone on the 5th, only one residence in
the town of 500 inhabitants escaping Sc
lious injury. Four persons were killed |
and about twenty five injured. The
towns of Hill City and Plainville also
suffered seriously.
The New York Daily Commercial Bull
letin's fire record for July, shows the fire
loss in the United States and Canada to
to have been $14,o26,Ooo against &c.,
100000 in July 1886, and $9,OO0,OOO
in July, 1885. The total loss for the first
seven months of 1887 was $76,928, 100
against $63,9OO,OOO for the correspond
ing period in 1886.
The walls of the ruins of Bishop &
Spears peanut warehouse at St. Louis,
which burned Wednesday morning, fell
md with them portion of Aikre s. Co.'s
wholesale grocery house, burying num-
Der of tiremen in the debris. Barney
Frank Mcdonald and Chris.
Hall were instantly killed, James O'Brien
fatally injured, and several others severely
wounded.
At the launching Of the steamer VIM.
4. Wolfe at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on
he 9th, the roof of dock, upon which
| number of people we're congregated to
witness the launching, gave way, precipi-
ating number of persons into the water
md burying others in the debris. Three
,ersons were killed outright, nine fatally
and about fifty, more or less
eriously injured.
A verdict in the case of the Chicago
,oodlers was reached on the 5th, and the
esult was surprise, as it had been ex-
,ected they would receive the extreme
,enalty of the law-three years and fine
# 81 900. Commissioners Ochs, Leyden,
Fan Pelt, Wren and Wasserman, and
Warden Varnell got two years, while
Mccarthy, Oliver, Cassel-
nan and Giels were simply fined 1000.
A horrible tragedy occurred about
welve miles from Macon, Georgia, on
friday night of last week. Capt. Richard
Voolfolk, farmer, his wife and six